Connect to WIFI

Install the antenna on the PI

• The place indicated by the red arrow is the WIFI antenna interface
• The WIFI antenna port is ipex1
• Install the antenna on the PI, otherwise it may not be able to connect to the network due to poor signal
• If there is no M2WE or 2.4G_WiFi module, you need to connect with an Ethernet cable to search for the IP address

FLYOS-Armbian System WiFi Connection

1. Please first connect to the host machine via serial port: FLYOS-Armbian Serial Port Connection to Host SSH

2. Enter the command sudo nmtui, which may prompt for a password, enter the password mellow, and press the Enter key, a pop-up interface as shown in the figure below will appear (note: the entered password is invisible)

3. Select the Activate a connection option, press the Enter key to enter the next-level menu

Operation Instructions for the WiFi Configuration Page

• Please ensure that the keyboard input method is in half-width mode, i.e., English mode.
• The up key ↑ and down key ↓ on the keyboard are used to move the cursor up and down to select menu items.
• The confirm key Enter is used to check the menu or enter a sub-menu.
• The exit key ESC is used to return to the previous menu.

4. If your router's WiFi is working properly, you will see the following WiFi list, the * after the WiFi name indicates signal strength

tip

• WiFi with Chinese names is NOT supported!!!
• Supports 2.4G WiFi, but whether it supports 5G WiFi depends on whether the purchased WiFi module supports 5G WiFi
• M2WE supports 5G WiFi

5. Select the WiFi you want to connect to, press the Enter key to enter the next-level menu

6. The following interface will then pop up, please correctly enter your WiFi password, press the Enter key to connect to WiFi

7. If the password is correct, a symbol * will appear before the corresponding WiFi, indicating that the WiFi connection is successful

8. Then press the Esc key twice to return to the command line interface

9. In SSH, enter ip a | grep inet, press the Enter key, and find the IP address in the returned content that matches your router to access

10. Open a browser, enter the IP of the host machine in the search box, press the Enter key, and you can enter the fluidd/mainsail WEB control console

11. In the browser's search box, enter IP:9999, press the Enter key, and you can enter the fly tools interface, through which you can enable various functions of the host machine

tip

• fly tools is only available in the FLYOS-Armbian system!!! There is no fly tools in FLYOS-FAST!!!